Mendeleyev's Dream. The Quest for the Elements

摘要

Mendeleyev's dream is full of colourful, eccentric characters, acrimonious feuds, wars, religious schisms, magic, misogyny and the fumes from alchemist's cauldrons. This is an entertaining and illuminating story of the centuries-long search to discover the fundamentals of chemistry and how Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev literally dreamed the solution we know today as the periodic table. If you have ever thought chemistry was a dull science, this is a story that will lift your spirits.